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Bangalore may be India's high-tech heart, but in one part of its leafy suburbs, there's a group of environmentalists trying to get back to the garden. In 2003, husband-and-wife architects Jeeth and Natasha Iype, working with Stanley George, a civil engineer, designed the Good Earth Orchard homes. Each of the 60 projected houses, now in various stages of construction, will feature slate and wood left in a natural state, without toxic waxes and finishes. Sewage will be treated in tanks that process waste without harmful chemicals. Household water will be heated by solar panels, which...
There's a man here who wants to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Cement. As head of research and development for Italcementi, Enrico Borgarello knows cement isn't considered the most high-tech--or environmentally friendly--of products. But under his direction, the Bergamo-based Italian company has developed a substance that could turn an ordinary building into a weapon against air pollution...
...assistance on the environment both to fast-developing nations such as China, and to prosperous peers such as the U.S. Whether it means nuclear power or fuel-efficient cars, if the entire world used energy like Japan, global carbon emissions would be lower. But the Japanese have always been high-tech leaders; what's new is the idea that Japan could take a political leadership position on climate change, working to broker the pacts that will replace Kyoto when the Accord, which the Bush Administration rejected, expires...
...site is just the first high-tech step in the Centre's mission to break down communication barriers between deaf and hearing people. A British Sign Language phone phrasebook should be released in the next year, plus the Centre has started to build a basic foreign-language phrasebook at www.deafstation.org, which will allow signers from Britain, Germany, Spain and Sweden to speak to each other...
...even those they do hire often lack the necessary savvy to contribute to the companies' long-term success. "There are two conceptual frameworks to understand innovation," says Alberto Rodriguez, author of a soon-to-be-released World Bank study on how better education spurs growth. "You have the high-tech, frontier innovation, and you have the adaptation and improvement of technology that happen day to day in firms." Economists call that everyday improvement total factor productivity. It is the x factor that allows an economy to operate more efficiently, producing greater output with the same people and resources...